The Heart Needs Guarding The heart needs guarding because of its natural bent as a part of our fallenness. And this is true even of those who have been regenerated by the Spirit of God through faith in Jesus Christ. While believers possess the new nature and the capacity to know God and discern spiritual things, and while they have received the enlightening and empowering ministry of the Holy Spirit, they still possess the old nature or the wretched capacity for evil and selfish pursuits by which they can independently strive to handle life on their own apart from God. To use biblical analogies or illustrations, we can be: (1) People committed to building our own cisterns, but these always turn out to be broken cisterns that can hold no water (Jer. 2:13). (2) People who are always prone to turn to the arm of the flesh rather than to the arm of God and His resources (Jer. 2:13; 17:5f). (3) People who seek to walk by the light of our own man-made firebrands (Isa. 50:11).
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:51:22 +0000
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